Aid workers begin to move syrians in desperate need of medical care from a besieged rebel held area of the capital damascus. Hello im adrian so to get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the government in the philippines reaches out to help people displaced by storms and Political Violence and. Extends its detention of two reuters journalists by a further two weeks. On lawrence we in london with solutions routinely use reporters to cairo the most delicate operations but could roubles be took to the force when the all. Aid workers have begun evacuating critical critically ill patients from eastern guta in syrias capital damascus but they discovered that a six month. Baby girl who was among twenty nine people on the most urgent list of those sick died two weeks ago as a whole are reports from lebanon. Its a start but its not enough only a handful of east critically ill are being allowed to leave to hospitals in damascus which is less than an hours drive away twenty nine patients the majority of them women and children the Syrian Government is allowing them to be treated outside the besieged opposition stronghold after the armed group. Agreed to release some government prisoners its not clear if new deals will be reached it has been four years since east hooter was besieged by the syrian army the siege has tightened in recent months there are according to the United Nations almost five hundred Urgent Medical cases. Man has brain cancer she says her condition is only deteriorating the u. N. Says more than a dozen people have already died while waiting to be evacuated for treatment i know there is no treatment available for me here i have nothing no medicine no money im just waiting for gods mercy its not just the lack of medical supplies there is a lack of food the United Nations says the area is experiencing the worst case of child malnutrition since the start of the conflict. Of medical equipment of vaccines have affected children also they are malnourished this has that to a number of diseases unfortunately that children are facing in dire conditions. There have been three reported deaths because of malnutrition in the past two months. Samar and were all not even two months old when they died the u. N. Says more than one thousand five hundred children are at risk among them two hundred thirty two who are acutely malnourished more than half of the four hundred thousand people trapped in east are believed to be children the area is not just under siege. For the first time but it was forty thousand people there is suffering. Here is the worse. The government is using. As a military strategy the situation worsens the likelihood of becomes more. Professor. Predicts that the fighting in syria. Over the next few months. I see that between now and the month of february this equation will be settled it is that way. About that clearly is that it is is now mobilizing troops around all of. Them not as off does those as the way she is going is the direction of really fairly confrontation or if the opposition accepts they will be moving toward the north through the. Province near the border as has had been done in many areas including the west. Near the border with lebanon last summer when somebody one hundred. Militia members and their families where moved by buses to. And to. Problems so it just remains to be see but clearly is that is that it is now gaining ground in the southern portion of syria and this will be settled in a matter of weeks president emanuel mccrone of france has saudi arabias king solomon to lift the blockade and yemen blockade is limiting supplies of food fuel and medicine into yemen crown expressed his concern about the humanitarian crisis in the country when millions of people on the brink of famine the war in yemen began more than two and a half years ago that has killed thousands of people. The first stage of a major Prisoner Exchange deal between ukrainian authorities and pro russia separatists has just ended both sides have been sending their prisoners towards a site near the city of horlivka which is mainly controlled by the separatists in total ukraine was expected to release three hundred six separatist fighters in exchange for the seventy four of its soldiers the deal was brokered last week mediated by the Russian Orthodox church in moscow skidmore this from our correspondent laurie chalons who joins us live from moscow rory how much work has gone into this deal. When as you say a significant meeting in moscow recently provided the final breakthrough but this is something that has been in the pipeline for several months at least with various hook ups and stutters along the way but this meeting that place in moscow was pretty high level was attended by the head of the russian. Orthodox church Patrick Carroll the leaders of the two separatist republics of deniece going to school and representatives from kiev as well but there was higher pressure than even. Putin said that he would use his influence with the separatist republics to push this through and of course it was being supported by kiev so i think all the stars really aligned once and there was actually some movements could be pushed in two results and those results we can see right now is this a significant breakthrough in the conflict the rory. It is yes it definitely is because the last significant prisoner swap was fifteen months ago the minsk talks in two thousand and fifteen said that all prisoners had to be exchanged within days of the agreement that never happened though so to reach a point where such a Significant Exchange of prisoners could take place the kind that were seeing right now means that there has had to be a degree of goodwill on both sides and that goodwill has had to be converted into solid action having said that there are prisoners on both sides remaining so this is probably the first of several and the leader of the republicans said thats the case that this is just the beginning. And also there are people who are still outside of these kind of talked about channels someone called sense of it is perhaps chief amongst those he was a ukrainian filmmaker arrested in crimea shortly after the annexation and convicted. Sentenced to twenty years in jail for terrorism charges its unclear at the moment whether hes going to be on any money for any future exchanges and of course the conflicts drags on this is a step in the right direction but while people are still dying in Eastern Ukraine and there seems to be no final resolution for the well this is just a step and certainly not any kind of final destination already many thanks on zero as rory chalons there live in moscow the detention of two reuters journalists in myanmar has been extended for a further fourteen days while loan and cure so were arrested earlier this month after Meeting Police officials on the outskirts of yangon the embarq uses the pair of planning to share illegally acquired information with foreign media the reporters were covering the crisis affecting rue hinge of muslims in rakhine state. They have been allowed to meet families and lawyers outside the court hearing. You know we were just carrying out our jobs as journalists we have been detained at the criminal Investigation Department we never violated our journalism ethics. I want my husband to be free soon and i trust him that he would never violate the rule of law he has good morals so he should be free soon the government of the philippines is setting up more than six hundred temporary shelters for some of the thousands of people displaced by conflict in the city of barai the army read talk the area from separatists i saw a link fighters in october after a five month siege as i was there was a bride reports down the plight of displaced people has been made even worse by floods after Tropical Storm tendon. For people displaced by the more are we fighting life in a muddy camp with open drains was already miserable then came the floods some tents were washed away and all of them was wrong and the families possessions are still a wet pile and they go to sleep in the damp. Their neighbor foreign and her family lost their home and business in the fighting now her daily battle is with the water and mud to keep it out. You have to constantly think about where to put your things in my dowry we had money and could eat properly and i could go to school in the city bears the scars of the months of conflict between Government Troops and fighters linked to i still for now which is quiet but theres still a threat of renewed hostilities and martial law in mindanao has been extended for another year but on the edge of the city signs of hope. New permanent homes are being built for displaced people president rodriguez whos from mindanao has promised to find a lasting solution to the conflict for him this project is an important step on the road to peace we. Were all known what good is above them and its an ongoing dialogue amended out the conflict holds up development the lack of money and jobs then fuels the underlying discontent and none of this is helped by being battered by storms from her tent home for an ample one can see the new houses being built on the opposite hillside but doesnt know if she will get close to moving into one martha i hope one day we can make a new start and living in one of the new houses would help for now the new houses are far outnumbered by the thousands of tents. Look bright aljazeera the city southern Philippines International election observers have praised liberias peaceful president ial runoff despite the low turnout the result between the former footballer george weah and the current Vice PresidentJoseph Walker is expected in the next few days i dont reports from liberias capital monrovia. After a day of orderly queues and peaceful venting in more than five thousand polling stations across liberia the people of this country are waiting for the results all for the Runoff Election it pits former football star where against current Vice President joseph walk by local media is already reporting that the way a hostile elite involves counted on tonnage full fall in some of the counties all for the country georgia where is banking on his support within the youth which accounts for more than sixty percent of the population of this country. Just as walker has time himself as the natural kind of date of transition as he has been deputising for outgoing president Ellen Johnson sirleaf for the past twelve years Electoral Commission is expected to announce the Election Results in a matter of days were going to weather update next to syria then at least one person is killed every twenty minutes in mexico will take a look at whats behind a Record Number of homicides have a look at the legacy of pakistans first female Prime MinisterBenazir Bhutto ten years after nation. Hello there is turning a little bit milder for some of us in the southeastern parts of china thats all thanks to the wind direction you can see it here pulling up from the south dragging in a fair amount of moisture with it as well say for some of us in the southeast theyll be more cloud that weve got used to in a few outbreaks of rain but as that air all pushes up northwards well see the temperatures rise so eleven degrees is the maximum in shanghai fair amount of cloud if you outbreaks of rain possible on thursday for friday the skies should be a look we should get to around fourteen degrees that mild air also extends through hong kong to get to around twenty four as we head across towards india is just really in the far northern parts of the cloud at the moment to further south its looking fine and dry its just a couple of showers around sri lanka and some of those are pretty perky giving us over fifty millimeters of rain the chance of one or two more showers here as we head through the next day or so but for the majority of the island it should be fine in that fine weather extends through many parts of india as well new delhi looking at a top temperature of around twenty two or twenty three degrees as we head through the next couple of days now here in doha temperatures are also around twenty three seventy three in fahrenheit the cloud staying way to the north of us so most of us should be fine. You are making very pointed remarks where on line the main us response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been criminalized or if you join us on sam no evil person this wakes up in the morning in the sense i want to cover the world in darkness they say is a dialogue and that could be what leading to some of the confusion on line about people saying they dont actually know whats going on join the colobus conversation at this time on aljazeera. Again the top stories on aljazeera this aid workers have begun to evacuate critically ill patients from a perceived part of syrias capital many people in eastern guta but theyre waiting for months time the u. N. Says that at least eighteen people have died including a six month old baby girl. The first stage of a major Prisoner Exchange deal between ukrainian authorities and pro russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine has ended in total ukraine is expected to release three hundred six separatist fighters in exchange for seventy four of its soldiers and the president of france somebody will not cross has urged saudi arabias king silva to lift the blockade on the blockade is limiting supplies of food food fuel and meds into yemen. Al jazeera spoken to a former political prisoner in yemen about his experiences a warning some of what you are about to hear is pretty graphic potentially good name reports. Yousif knew the opposition newspaper he edited made him a target of the armed rebel who thiis it was time to take precautions but it was too late last year he says he was kidnapped outside his home in santa. I was repeatedly tortured interrogated due to my job as a journalist before my the tension i openly declared that i was suspending my work due to the harsh conditions facing journalists opposed to the who these in song and so began more than a year held in several prisons in yemens capital. Threatened with physical abuse and rape so was my family i was put in solitary confinement for twenty six days my health deteriorated. Human Rights Groups say thousands of people including children have been arbitrarily detained and tortured by both sides in the war Yemeni Forces and who the fighters are accused of beating using electric shocks and forcing prisoners to strip others taken captive have simply disappeared this human rights Attorney Says families have reported the deaths of almost one hundred twenty prisoners in one of the events in seventy year and if there are secret prisons human Rights Groups have documented four hundred seventeen alone in sana from residential houses to schools and even places of worship the kidnappers have abducted individuals from all walks of life and juniors doctors and even journalists they are subjected to brutal torture but journalists are given a harder time line was eventually transferred to a military prison camp where he says he was housed along with prisoners of war last month he was released as part of a prisoner swap. But if i thought. I wish it didnt happen that way simply because i was not a convicted person i was kidnapped outside my house. Is lucky to be alive days before he was released the camp was bombed dozens of his former cell mates die natasha to name. Twenty seventeen thats been mexicos most violent here since the country started keeping records twenty years ago at least twenty three thousand people have been murdered thats one death every twenty minutes be increasing wages being blamed on corruption a weak judiciary and the extradition of drug lords to the us has shot up fellas reports. Three years ago forty three students were abducted on their way to approach in mexico city their parents want. Remains from just two of the students have been positively identified as i mean when they while they know they may go. Region of guadalupe is the patron saint of mexico and i will ask her to speak to the hearts of those in government to return our children because its not fair that thirty nine months on our children have not been returned. The void these parents feel is repeated across mexico. This is how the year began in the resort town turned murder capital of mexico acapulco six people including three women were shot and killed at a market during lunch time on january fourth two days later two more people were shot to death on a beach popular with locals and it continues nationwide until the number of people murdered passed a record twenty three thousand in november mexico started keeping homicide records in one thousand nine hundred five the figure drops until two thousand and seven when former president Felipe Calderon launched his drug war this was the result it dropped again after president pena nieto was elected and to now this year the drug fueled violence has spread affecting peaceful regions like california with the murder rate has doubled. The jump has been blamed on corruption judiciary and the capture and extradition of drug lords Joaquin El Chapo guzman to the United States the. Leading competition for his domain. Its because of the drastic adjustment the criminal organizations have had in the last three years in mexico the appearance of new criminal groups the dissolution of others and the great struggle that is beginning to be noticed in the country states in regions of the country where there was relative peace after the capture and extradition of walker. In an attempt to control the cartels Congress Approved a controversial law that would see soldiers take over from police in the drug makes the coast Supreme Court is deciding if it will become law next year. For now forty